How Strong is Your Exercise Foundation?

How Strong is Your Exercise Foundation?

Bluprint Performance Pyramid

The science of fitness and proper programming is continuously evolving. Athletes are getting bigger, faster, and stronger because of a better understanding of how the body adapts to different stimuli. The increase in athletic achievements over the past decade is not a coincidence. It’s a quest by fitness professionals to exploit genetic potential. So where do we start when creating a program model? Let’s start by creating a movement progression in the form of a “Performance Pyramid”.

The Performance Pyramid is a tool we use at Bluprint Fitness to assess an athletes level of preparedness. The pyramid is broken down into four levels: (1) Functional Movement, (2) Functional Performance, (3) Advanced Functional Performance, and (4) Functional Skill.

Each level builds on the next and the key to proper progression is mastery. One must put focus on the lower levels of the pyramid to safely and efficiently perform advanced movements shown at the top of the pyramid.